FOR THE POLITBURO OF THE CC RKP(b)

Comrade Molotov,

I insist absolutely on an immediate decision by the Politburo by telephone regarding the urgent dispatch of Rudzutak to Germany (immediately after the plenum on trade unions): he has both fever and hemoptysis. It is clear that tuberculosis is progressing.

He will not be cured here and, most importantly, a strict regimen will not be established.165

Lenin

Written 24 December 1921

Published for the first time from the manuscript